[pinkpanther]

Some scholars opined that it could not be more than 50 because, killing 600 men is a huge task and a logistical nightmare. There would have been a lot of reports of such a huge event taking place. But as you probably have known by now, there are only scant reports in our Hadith so it could not have been a huge event. Another point the scholars brought up is the lack of mention in the Jewish annals. If such an event took place, the Jewish annals would have recorded it. There are no records in the Jewish annals of such a huge event that happened to their people.

A massacre was never mentioned in the Hadith.

What ask the scholars...the event was written down...ask what!